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Markoff: Dennard scaling stopped dead in 2006, halting clock speed growth
“Denard scaling, which was really the most important part of Silicon Valley, stopped in 2006. Just stopped dead. Clock speed stopped advancing, and so you went to parallelism and all these other kinds of technique.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:44 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
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Markoff: Symantec was originally founded as an AI company
“One was Tech Knowledge and the other was Symantec. You know, most people don't know that it started as an AI company, but it did.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:54 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
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Markoff: Doug Engelbart identified semiconductor scaling five years before Moore's Law
“I'm the one who stumbled across the paper in the Stanford archives that Doug Engelbart wrote in 1960, where he looked at this brand new technology of semiconductors, and he pointed out that it scales.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:43 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
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